ora is a versatile and elegant terminal spinner for Node.js, enhancing the user experience of command-line applications. It provides visual feedback during long-running processes, replacing the default cursor with a customizable spinner animation. Offering a clean and intuitive API, ora supports various spinner types, colors, and text updates, making it simple to communicate progress and status to users in a visually appealing way regardless of your terminal. Improves CLI interaction.
The npm package ora has a sporadic release history. Releases were most frequent in 2016 and 2019. The package had consistent releases through August 2021, after which releases became less frequent. In 2023 there were releases in March, May, July, August, and December. In 2024 there were releases in August and November. So far in 2025, there was only one release in February.
Ora's npm package downloads show strong growth. From February 2024 to July 2025, downloads steadily increased, peaking at over 170 million. August 2025's partial data shows a significant drop to 108 million, suggesting a potential downward trend or incomplete data collection for the month.
